Morning Ladies. I am still tired I am always tired after I spend time away from home. I will give a short run down of the weekend.
Thu-We left for the camp ground and unpacked into the camper and tent. The girls stayed in the tent while mom, Bug, and I shared the camper with my cousin, his wife, and youngest dd (K). I had to bite my tong when Bug accidentally knocked over K and my cousin told him no more pushing or he would be done playing for the night
. I would have corrected my son if it had been mean spirited but they were running and playing in the shed and her knocked her over and she was fine. I ignored my cousin since it didn't seem to phase my son. I just do not go around giving him empty threats to keep him in line and do not like when others do. I did remind Bug to be careful that girls do not like to play rough. They then went to the playground and ds found some boys to be tough with.
Fri-We went out on the boat after breakfast and just hung out. My dd, her friend (N) and my cousins oldest dd (C) jumped in the water and had fun. This is when the teen drama started and it just all came to a head Sat afternoon. C brought a friend also and the friend (P) did not want to do any thing but boy watch and would not go in the water because her hair would get wet. More on this later.
Fri night-We went to my Aunt's for fireworks and went out on there boat for a trip around lake Orion. We then watched the fire works from her yard. She lives on the island by were the fire works are set off. It is a great view and I try to go there every year they invite us. The island is always packed with people and their cars. My Aunt is firm on only inviting as many people as she can fit cars in the driveway. By 6 you can't get a car on the island and by 8 the island is closed of to even foot traffic. There are big parties on both sides of her and my son and I spend some time at the neighbors were he has little ones and toys to play with.
Sat-The campground has a big rib roast that my cousin is in charge of and my mom cooks the ribs. I help by watching the little ones. I spent the whole day at the beach with Bug and K. I had a blast. This is when the teen drama finally came to a head. The 4 teens went out on the small boat and a guy on a jet ski rode circles around them making waves and splashing them. The girls who will not get wet got wet. Now it gets very confusing and the bottom line was C ditched P to go out on the paddle boat and I was told there was some teasing and talking about P. P was upset and whined to C's parents until C was in trouble. Now I did talk to the girls about not talking about P and did not in any way condone it. I did not feel that C should have had to miss out on everything else because she had to stay with P no matter what P did or didn't want to do. Also when C was confronted by her parents she said she wasn't teasing or talking about P at all. My cousin then tells me he knows my teens were because he heard them. This left my teens being the ones who were the bad kids. It was not just my teens and it was not anything more than teen girls being teen girls. After that I told my 2 to just steer clear of the other two. I hope I did not lose you all in this. It wouldn't be so bad other than my children are always the ones who end up being the bad children and I get
. I will speak up if my cousin starts to really try and lay into one of them like he does his but for the most part I just try to not make it worse. It is one of those cases were the only way to argue the point is to say your child is lying and that does not win an argument with any parent.
Sun-I was at the beach again with the youngest two and also noticed that C was aloud to stray from P a little if it was not with my 2. I also found out that C has a secret boyfriend. I would not tell my cousin but it would be nice to say "Your child is sneaky and lyes all the time just because she is scared of you. You don't have perfect kids you have scared kids."
Over all it was a good weekend. I will be glad when we are members of the campground and can have some space from the family when we need it. My mom should be able to get in since she works for the state in the prison system. I will have to be on a waiting list and it takes years to become a member then. I will only be aloud to camp when some one is there to sponsor me. That is how we go now. My cousin sponsors us.
But looky here - Janet left updates right here on the last page! Tahnks J!
We had a pretty good weekend. But, is it too late to un-invite Gramma from our Dec. trip?!
I miss him already.
ME stuff!!!
He's not mean, he just doesn't get it.
